‘Vrill, The energy of the Coming Race’ (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early technology fiction novel. The setting is usually a unusual subterranean globe inhabited by gorgeous entities that resemble the angels described in scripture. The advanced beings known as Vril-ya live underground – using the incomprehensible ‘Vril’ as an energy resource – but intend to reclaim the surface of the globe as their personal. The narrator end deep inside the Earth via a organic chasm inside a mine shaft. He is rescued with the Vril-ya, a sophisticated race that make use of telepathic powers, fly with artificial wings, are offered by automata and possess formidable weaponry. After a long stay, things go wrong and the protagonist escapes back again to the surface with the help of Zee, one of the Vril-ya.